3 Tracks:The Twists and Turns of the Loved and Hated D - ZH27:994The Twists and Turns of the Loved and Hated 4 - ZH27:992Your Life Has Been Secured For You - ZH27:991

Runtime: 89:32Released: 2008Price: £2

90 minutes of international collaborative experimental sounds.
Mixed by Zan Hoffman (Second Violin,
Zanoisect,
etc...) from 15x1-minute submissions by many artists,
including Court of Hidden Faces.
This mini-CD (CD3) is a data CD-ROM with MP3s,
images and info. It will not play in a audio CD player.

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1 Tracks:Collusion

Runtime: 60:29Released: 2007

Collusion is a long play noise/dark ambient collaboration effort.
The concept is simple: artists contribute minimal dark ambient or noise tracks,
contributed tracks will be layered to create a continuous piece.

Pieces is a project designed to stretch the borders of incidental sound composition.
A compilation comprised of eleven tracks created using four-second chunks of a live performance.

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4 Tracks:Serenity WheelerNylon GeminiAmber Lights AllSnow

Runtime: 15:08Released: 2006.12.07

Early ambient work with electronically treated guitars.
Released freely through Canadian netlabel Nishi,
with a Creative Commons by-nc-nd license.

Court of Hidden FacesSatellite Heart - NWFASXX

Free downloads.

Court of Hidden FacesSerenity Wheeler - Track

Court of Hidden Faces is a one-man recording project that uses glitchy home-made electronics, guitar and field recordings to aim for a haunted sound somewhere between post-rock, ambient electronica and noise music.

Spanning over just seventeen minutes, Missed Connection comes and goes relatively quickly,
plunging you briefly into its gentle soundscapes and hoisting you out again soon after. So of
course, this EP from Court of Hidden Faces needs to be fairly direct if it is to fully envelop
listeners in its glitchy ambience, as well as displaying enough depth to encourage replay.
Opening piece "The Landscape Changes Hue" begins with Fennesz-style static, tucked away
behind delicate, post-rock melodies. It's all quite pretty and touching, though the
electronic/acoustic interplay feels slightly unconvincing at this early stage - the guitar sits
awkwardly on top of the wash of electro-interference, and both implements together feel like
two puzzle pieces, untidily forced to interlock.

However, the seamless flow between tracks is expertly orchestrated. Effectively, Missed
Connection is a single composition, with track transitions completely blurred and unnoticeable.
The final two sections are brilliant; the atmosphere expands outwards into something
cavernous and metallic, whilst an eerie tension rises up in the form of soft harmonies and
tremolo-picked leads. It could, and should, continue on for a good eight minutes or so,
allowing the mood to gradually sink in and cement itself into the subconscious.

But this doesn't happen. The ending comes abruptly, leaving Missed Connection feeling
incomplete, swiping away the experience just as it begins to make an emotive impact. It's an
EP that offers up a taster, a mere demonstration of potential, without delivering the full
capability of Court of Hidden Faces. Perhaps with a full length, this band can really shine, fully
unveiling the talent that this effort only offers a glimpse of.